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Chinese bank worker counts 100-yuan notes and US dollar bills at a bank
counter in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on September 2010. The US
Treasury Department on Friday said it would delay the publication of a
controversial report on China's currency policies until after a key
meeting of the G20 in South Korea in mid-November.

The
report, which could have labeled China a currency manipulator and
opened the path for US sanctions on Chinese goods, was due to be
released by Friday.

The delay avoids the prospect of a bitter
trade dispute between two powers, who have faced-off over accusations
that Beijing keeps the yuan undervalued to gain an unfair trade
advantage.